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Amit Oza, currently interim Head of the Department of
Medical Oncology & Hematology at the Princess Margaret
Cancer Centre, with Sivabal Savalaganathan, Director of the
Centre for Mathematical Medicine. The Fields Institute for
Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto.
Amidst a flurry of CMM activities that took place in
the early years (workshops, seminar series, summer-schools,
etc.), a notable CMM event, the genesis and precursor of
current Fields focus programs, was the highly successful
“Mathematical and Quantitative Oncology” eight-week
mini-thematic program (2008), run jointly with the Vanderbilt